The Carnival season, or Mardi Gras season, officially begins on Epiphany, Jan. 6, and lasts through Fat Tuesday.

Country singer Trade Adkins tossed beads to revelers showing off their "Honky Tonk Badonkadonk" during his reign as Celebrity King in the 2019 Krewe of Orpheus Parade on Fat Tuesday in New Orleans.

Mardi Gras beads in hand, Anthony Mackie rode along ... as Celebrity King in the 2019 Krewe of Orpheus Parade on Fat Tuesday in New Orleans. Solange Knowles — who got married in New Orleans ...

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Mardi Gras is literally ‘fat Tuesday’ in French ... surviving examples of ‘throwing’ in new Orleans are Japanese mercury glass beads, made during World War II, and the early 20th century ...

As the sun rose on Fat Tuesday, people donning skeleton masks and antlers on their heads gathered in New Orleans' historic Treme neighborhood. Members of the Northside Skull and Bones Gang woke up the ...

NEW ORLEANS — Happy Mardi Gras! Parades are rolling this Fat Tuesday. Many parades are on ... necks hunched from a hefty haul of shimmery beads, were renowned Black masking Indians, whose ...

Webber said that groups, called krewes, organize parades and distribute beads featuring ... 2008 in New Orleans, Louisiana. Mardi Gras day, or Fat Tuesday, is a celebration the day before Lent ...

Webber, a New ... Orleans. “People were encouraged to use up butter, oil, and meat products and not have them on hand because they could not be eaten during Lent – hence (how) Fat Tuesday ...

BRYAN, Texas (KBTX) -New Orleans is famous for its over-the-top ... Festivities wrap up at midnight after Fat Tuesday.